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**Vigeommighica** · 09-08-2012, 05:13 PM

in our opinion, why did Buddha mention them? in our experience, what are they?

Thanks for the discussion Element

In my experience, the five aggregates are those chain links in the twelve-link chain of dependent origination that are most obvious to momentary experience

(unlike e.g. becoming or death which are often hidden away in the subconscious or closed rooms and unseen).

I my opinion, Buddha mentioned them because they are that which the ignorant mind will usually use in 'I'-making.

Thus the mind will usually aggregate or concoct the formness into a form, feelingness into feeling etc.

Which is taking features, constituents or snapshots of sense experience and put them together by the concocting mind, into something solid and putatively belonging to self.

09-08-2012, 05:13 PM	#19
Vigeommighica Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 405 Senior Member	in our opinion, why did Buddha mention them? in our experience, what are they? Thanks for the discussion Element In my experience, the five aggregates are those chain links in the twelve-link chain of dependent origination that are most obvious to momentary experience (unlike e.g. becoming or death which are often hidden away in the subconscious or closed rooms and unseen). I my opinion, Buddha mentioned them because they are that which the ignorant mind will usually use in 'I'-making. Thus the mind will usually aggregate or concoct the formness into a form, feelingness into feeling etc. Which is taking features, constituents or snapshots of sense experience and put them together by the concocting mind, into something solid and putatively belonging to self.
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